This book, in 1895, is in its ninety-first edition of one thousand copies.

Thirteenth page: "The thrilling tones that concentrate the soul" is a nervous line, and the six first lines of page 14 are very pretty, the twenty-first effusion a perfect thing.

Confidently anticipate Augustus Fink-Nottle as Master of Revels on thirty-first inst.

E FIRST Introduction The Victorian era has ceased to be a thing of yesterday; it has become history; and the fixed look of age, no longer contemporary in character, which now grades the period, grades also the once living material which went to its making.

Among the passages which are criticised in the twenty-first lecture, there is one in which the essayist speaks of the effects of novelty as follows: 'It is this which bestows charms on a monster, and makes even the imperfections of nature please us.

At a short distance from the town, on the road known to the army by the name of the Forty-first Lines, is a small open space, which formerly was railed in: and here all criminals used to be executed.

there old ScraggsI say 'old,' but the man weren't more than fortycelebrated his eighty-first marriage in that old bull-pen, and they lived as happy ever after as any story book.

An old man in corduroys, who wears a dirty handkerchief round his neck for collar and cravat, and is charged with feloniously stealing, taking and carrying away his forty-first pair of boots and is also a bit 'ard of 'earing, insists that he is the man.

Between the eightieth and the eighty-first parallel the Barrier ice along our route was even, with the exception of a few low undulations; dangerous hidden places were not to be found.